calamity; disturbance; disorder; turmoil
Obsolete term for a great disaster or upheaval; not used in modern Japanese outside of historical or literary contexts.
In old documents, there are examples where warfare is recorded as 禍乱.
Obsolete kanji compound; the only written form.
Compound of 禍 (calamity) and 乱 (disorder). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; it appears in classical Chinese and was adopted into Japanese as a literary term.